Telling us to obey instinct is like telling us to obey 'people.' People say different things: so do instincts. Our instincts are… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal.... Next to the Blessed Sacrament itself, your neighbor is… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Some people talk as if meeting the gaze of absolute goodness would be fun. They need to think again. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Many people think their prayers are never answered because it is the answered ones they forget. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
There are two kinds of love: we love wise and kind and beautiful people because we need them, but we love (or… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Jesus produced mainly three effects: hatred, terror, adoration. There was no trace of people expressing mild approval. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Good people know about both good and evil: bad people do not know about either. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
We may note in passing that He (Jesus) was never regarded as a mere moral teacher. He did not produce that effect… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
He didn't call his father and mother 'Father' and 'Mother' but Harold and Alberta. They were very up to date and advanced… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Vanity is really the least bad and most pardonable sort. The vain person wants praise, applause, admiration too much and is always… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
We may think God wants actions of a certain kind, but God wants people of a certain kind. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Many thousands of people have had the experience of finding the first friend, and it is none the less a wonder; as… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Ambition! We must be careful what we mean by it. If it means the desire to get ahead of other people -… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
I have discovered that the people who believe most strongly in the next life do the most good in the present one. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
'Good English' is whatever educated people talk; so that what is good in one place or time would not be so in… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
If Christianity was something we were making up, of course we could make it easier. But it is not. We cannot compete,… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
A world of nice people, content in their own niceness, looking no further, turned away from God, would be just as desperately… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
God, in the end, gives people what they most want, including freedom from himself. What could be more fair? — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
You understand sleep when you are awake, not while you are sleeping. You can see mistakes in arithmetic when your mind is… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Do not imagine that if you meet a really humble man he will be what most people call "humble" nowadays: he will… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
If I, being what I am, can consider that I am in some sense a Christian, why should the different vices of… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
One of our great allies at present is the Church itself. Do not misunderstand me. I do not mean the Church as we see… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Either Jesus is the Son of God ; or a madman or worse. But His being just a great teacher? He's not left that… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
To every soul, God will look like its first love because He IS its first love. Your place in heaven will seem to be… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Don't you understand anything? Isn't it absolutely essential to keep a fierce Left and a fierce Right, both on their toes and each terrified… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Really great moral teachers never do introduce new moralities: it is quacks and cranks who do that. As” — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“When He died in the Wounded World He died not for men, but for each man. If each man had been the only man… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
All I am in private life is a literary critic and historian, that's my job...And I'm prepared to say on that basis if anyone… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
If a man is going to write on chemistry, he learns chemistry. The same is true of Christianity. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The first fact in the history of Christendom is a number of people who say they have seen the Resurrection. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
I#pray because the need flows out of me all the time-walking and sleeping. It does not change # God - it changes me. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Are the gods not just?' 'Oh no, child. What would become us us if they were? — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
